
At the end of every year cartoonists put down their pens, lean back from their drawing boards and think — well, next year can’t be as crazy as this year was. And we’re always proved wrong.
Who could have predicted that 2023 would produce a scandalous tell-all book about the royal family, by a member of the royal family; a politician even more divisive than Matt Hancock entering the jungle; the Government ripping itself apart over a policy that affects literally only a few hundred asylum-seekers; an opposition that has a miraculously large lead in the polls despite having zero policies; and another horrific war, just as the Fallen were being remembered?